Cresco Labs, a multi-state pot company headquartered in River North, is allegedly stalling a vote as employees on the corporate’s central Illinois cultivation facility push to unionize, in step with an unfair hard work practices criticism.
Employees at Cresco’s develop middle in Lincoln filed the criticism alleging that Cresco is combating the National Labor Relation Board’s choice to carry a mail-in election, in step with a commentary from Local 881 UFCW, the union that represents hashish business workers.
In addition to allegedly maintaining up the election, the cultivation middle employees declare Cresco is slicing wages for union supporters, giving preferential remedy to those that oppose the unionization push and illegally granting advantages to workers in keeping with their union task.
While the NLRB’s ruling requires the election to be hung on Nov. 17, the employees allege that Cresco is combating the verdict and “disrespecting” their needs to forged their votes through mail within the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Cresco, its employees and the NLRB had up to now agreed on an in-person election, in step with the commentary.
Cresco spokesman Jason Erkes denied the allegations whilst claiming that its employees “have the same concerns over mail-in ballots that people all across the country do.”
“We support their right to have an in-person secret ballot election monitored by the NLRB. We have not rolled out any benefits in response to union activity,” stated Erkes, noting that Cresco supplies “enhanced paid time off and other benefits” to over 1,800 workers national.
Workers at Cresco’s Joliet cultivation facility and its Sunnyside dispensary in Lake View have already voted to sign up for the union. At least one different pot corporations running in Illinois, PharmaCann, has allowed their employees to freely meet with the union and make a selection whether or not to sign up for.